OIL and gas workers, climate groups and unions have come together with a plan to transform British energy.

The Our Power report, a two-year project combining research with conversations with those working in the British energy industry, has settled on 10 costed demands.

They have the backing of 1,000 workers surveyed, unions Unite, RMT and Unison Scotland, and environmental groups Platform and Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES).

The demands include a government-backed jobs guarantee, a training “passport” for workers, investment in manufacturing hubs for renewables, collective bargaining on pay, health and safety through trade unions, equal pay for migrant workers, protection from blacklisting and public ownership.

Platform Just Transition campaigner Gabrielle Jeliazkov said: “Oil and gas workers have developed a way forward.

“We cannot trust obstructive industry bosses to develop solutions that protect workers, communities and the climate.”

A number of oil “majors” were successful bidders in last year’s controversial ScotWind auction of offshore wind leases by the Scottish government.

But workers have made it clear that if there is to be a transition that works for them, offshore wind must not follow in the footsteps of the oil industry companies which have paid little tax while engaging in blacklisting and other anti-worker practices for decades.

FoES head of campaigns Mary Church said: “The Scottish government must pick up these demands and run with them as part of their just transition plan for the energy sector.”

RMT regional organiser Jake Malloy said: “These demands are the start of an energy plan that will deliver affordable and secure energy.

“We need a manufacturing base to support new developments and decommissioning. The voice of the workforce must be heard.”